The University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine a two-year $314,688 grant [from the National Endowment for the Humanities] to create an original, open access digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in the United States. The University of Michigan Library, through its Scholarly Publishing Office, is contributing digital conversion, hosting, and archiving services to the project.
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“The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia” is original in three significant ways. It will:
+ Be the first digital collection to document the social, cultural, public health, and human dimensions of the most devastating infectious health crisis to occur in the world during the post-germ theory era;
+ Be the first extensive digital collection to highlight the responses of over 50 differing American communities to the 1918-1919 pandemic, with attention to multiple social forces, organizations, communities and to the human experiences of death and disease;
+ Provide access to an extensive set of interpretative documents, such as city essays, timelines, information boxes, and sidebars that will help guide the reader and serve as templates for self-guided research projects.
Source: Scholarly Publishing Office at U. of Michigan Libraries
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